Vermin-killing poultry-perch.



M. COOPER.

VERMIN KILLING POULTRY PERGH.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 20, 1912.

1,082,585. Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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MORTON COOPER, OF BAINBR-IDGE, NEW YORK.

VERMIN-KILLING POULTRY-PERCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

Application filed September 20, 1912. Serial No. 721,512.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORTON COOPER, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the village of Bainbridge, county of Chcnango, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Vermin-KillingPoultry-Perches, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to a hollow roost or perch for fowls and otherroosting birds, and has for its object to provide a novel detail ofconstruction of such roost or perch which adapt it by means of tin traystherein to contain a germicide for the extermination of lice, mites andother vermin that infest fowls and growing chickens, and, which alsoadapt it by means of metal disks to catch and subject such lice, mitesand vermin to the action of the germicide contained in the trays.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts as hereinafter described and defined in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the perch with the cover plate brokenaway to show the interior construction thereof. Fig. 2 is a crosssection of the perch with the trays, 4t and 5, removed, showing the Vshaped opening in part 2 and the perforations through part 1 of saidperch. Fig. 3 represents the under side or lower face of part 1 of saidperch showing the metal perforated disks, 666, pressed concentricallyand closely fitting around the perforations, 333.

The perch as shown in Fig. 1 consists of two members or parts, a lowerpart, 2, formed from a rectangular piece of wood or other material bycutting a longitudinal V shaped groove in the upper face thereof, and anupper or cover part or member, 1, of the same length and breadth as thelower member, 2, and preferably of the same material and having alongitudinal row of perforations, 3-33, through the same from the topface to the lower face thereof. Each of said perforations is provided onthe under side of part 1 with a stamped or pressed perforated metaldisk, 6, placed concentric with and closely fitting around theperforations. Such perch is also provided with tin or other metallic Vshaped trays or troughs, 4E and 5, with closed ends, with one of suchends of each tray or trough of the same size as the ends of the perch.These trays are made slightly smaller than the V shaped groove in part2, so as to be easily placed within and removed from such groove. Thelarge end of the trays may if preferable be made slightly larger thanthe ends of the perch so that a finger grip may be obtained to removethem from the groove.

In using this perch which is adapted to be placed on standards or in anymanner fastened from the floor of the poultry house so as to allowaccess to the ends of the perch, a germicide is placed in the tray, 4and 5, and the trays then placed in their position in the groove in part2. The lice, mites and vermin upon leaving the fowls in the morning asthey invariably do enter the perforations, 338, in part 1, and uponcoming in contact with the metal disks, 66-6, fall into the germicideand are exterminated.

Part 1 and part 2 are securely fastened together so as to allow noopportunity for lice, mites or vermin to escape through any opening orcrevice that might be caused if they were not so fastened and would becaused if part 1 were removable from part 2, as it is impossible to soconstruct two similar parts one of which is removable from the other ordetachable without leaving sufficient room between the junction orjoining of two such parts for lice, mites or vermin to crawl through andescape.

The object of the trays in the perch instead of a hollow perch withoutthem is three fold; it allows part 1 and part 2 to be securely fastenedtogether and non-detachable, at the same time allowing access to theinner side of the perch for the purpose of cleaning; the trays serve asa means to prevent the lice, mites and vermin from escaping from thegermicide therein once they fall into the same, as the trays are filledonly about half full of the germicide and should the lice, mites andvermin attempt to crawl out of the same, if they are not immediatelyeXterminat-ed, they would strike the sides of the metallic trays, whichthey cannot cling to, and fall back into the germicide, and by the useof the trays the perch is kept in a much cleaner condition and may becleansed and the lice, mites and.

vermin removed without removing the perch from its position, which ithas been necessary to do in prior inventions of this character, and theobject of the disks, 6-66, being to prevent the lice, mites and verminfrom returning to the upper face of part 1 or from clinging to the underside of part 1 after they have entered the perforations, 333, as uponstriking these metal disks, 666, they fall into the germicide in thetrays.

The perch may be of any desired length, and may be adapted to any sizeof poultry houses, coops or cages.

What I claim as new is:

1. A vermin killing poultry perch comprising two parts securely fastenedtogether so as to leave no crevice between such parts, andnon-detachable, the upper or cover part containing a longitudinal row ofperforations through the same serving to receive lice, mites and vermin,and the lower or under part containing a longitudinal V shaped groove inthe upper surface thereof, and metallic trays also V shaped intransverse cross section and with closed ends, one of which ends of eachtray is of the size of the ends of the perch, made to fit into thelongitudinal V shaped groove in the lower a longitudinal row ofperforations through the same; a lower or under part containing alongitudinal V shaped groove in the upper face thereof, and V shapedremovable trays fitting in the V shaped groove in the lower member ofthe perch and adapted to con- J tain a germicide and to receive lice,mites and vermin, each of said perforations through said upper or coverpart being provided on the under side thereof with a stamped or pressedin perforated metal disk placed concentric with and closely fittingaround the perforations to prevent lice, mites and vermin from returningto the surface of the perch.

MORTON COOPER. WVitnesses:

RALPH W. KIRBY, SEBERT B. HOLLENBEOK.

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